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Sane, sane, they're all insane, fireman's blind, the conductor is lame
A Cincinnati jacket and a sad-luck dame
Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

Said roar, roar, the thunder and the roar
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more
The moon in the window and a bird on the pole
We can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

Said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams
Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at

Roar, roar, the thunder and the roar
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more
Moon in the window and a bird on the pole
Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

I said steam, steam, a hundred bad dreams
Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
A fifty-dollar bill inside a palladin's hat
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at

Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime
All the way to Baltimore and running out of time
Salvation Army seemed to wind up in the hole
They all went to heaven in a little row boat
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands
Clap hands, clap hands, clap hands, clap hands

Lazarus May 17, 2013 - 21:00	Cynaera wrote: I seriously think that I need to buy a few of Tom Waits' CDs - this one, for sure - just because whenever things start looking a little TOO good in my life, I need the uneasiness of a song I can't readily understand to remind me of how very good I actually have it. Miss you so much, Cynaera... everybody in my church loves this song... [ Reply ]
MirageRF Mar 31, 2013 - 10:09	Everyone in the commune loves this song! [ Reply ]
Pilgrim301 Oct 25, 2012 - 14:24	Ooooh, reminds me of a boyfriend. That wild roller-coaster life-changing relationship lasted two weeks; I remember it not with bitterness or regret but whatever the equivalent is of drinking the dregs of the coffee pot. With grounds in your cup. Obviously, there was some great music in there, too. He dropped me for a woman he later married ... they're still married, twenty years later. Somehow that makes me feel better about it all. smile [ Reply ]
karljonasson Oct 25, 2012 - 14:18	If this isn't a 10, nothing is. [ Reply ]
whomhow Oct 25, 2012 - 14:18	I'm really happy to hear on RP something from brilliant Rain Dogs album. 9. [ Reply ]
funkyalfonso Oct 25, 2012 - 14:17	Gamalang....I like it. [ Reply ]
fredriley Aug 08, 2012 - 06:06	terrapin52 wrote: Yep. Just what I thought. It's a white guy trying to sound black. You've got weird thought processes. Waits sounds like a drunk hobo with a 2-pack-a-day habit, deliberately so I'm sure as he's an astounding street poet. There's only one image goes through my mind when I hear Waits, and that's of an ancient white down-and-out in a dirty mac clutching a bottle and sleeping on park benches. He's the songwriting equivalent of the crime writer James Ellroy who had a down-and-out background. If you reckon he's trying to sound black, perhaps you could give examples of black dudes who sound like that? I'm damned if I can think of any. [ Reply ]
Baby_M Aug 08, 2012 - 06:01	...but I don't hear anyone clapping.... [ Reply ]
Proclivities Jul 23, 2012 - 04:08	secretsauce wrote: OK, tell us. What's a Cincinnati jacket? You asked... [ Reply ]
Stranglersfan Jul 07, 2012 - 19:32	yes 10 [ Reply ]
The_Enemy Jun 21, 2012 - 16:55	secretsauce wrote: OK, tell us. What's a Cincinnati jacket? There's a hood that crumples into the high collar. [ Reply ]
jhorton Jun 21, 2012 - 16:50	Everybody in my trailer park puts the pipe down for a second when I blast this one out of my boom box! [ Reply ]
neuticle Apr 03, 2012 - 14:25	If Howlin' Wolf and Marge Simpson had a child out of wedlock, I think he'd sound a lot like ol' Tom here. [ Reply ]
MiracleDrug Apr 03, 2012 - 14:24	I don't know how... but this one actually doesn't suck go figure. [ Reply ]
gaskeydesign Mar 18, 2012 - 11:46	That guitar solo by Ribot is off the hook!!!!!!!! [ Reply ]
secretsauce Mar 02, 2012 - 22:03	fingerpin wrote: Had to google "A Cincinnati jacket" and I live here. Who knew? Great song by the way. OK, tell us. What's a Cincinnati jacket? [ Reply ]
On_The_Beach Feb 15, 2012 - 18:29	alcal74 wrote: TOO MUCH TOM WAITS. It seems every time I start up RP it's the gravelly voice of this hobo I hear. [ Reply ]
alcal74 Feb 15, 2012 - 17:14	TOO MUCH TOM WAITS. It seems every time I start up RP it's the gravelly voice of this hobo I hear. [ Reply ]
TerryS Jan 14, 2012 - 22:54	Phototrekker wrote: Just what you thought huh? You are just what I think of when I think of South Carolina - Given the original comment, I was thinking that SC was an acronym for something quite different. [ Reply ]
Phototrekker Dec 30, 2011 - 11:12	terrapin52 wrote: Yep. Just what I thought. It's a white guy trying to sound black. Just what you thought huh? You are just what I think of when I think of South Carolina - [ Reply ]